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Friday, July 7 7 - 9 am Log in, please contact lowell.gustafson@gmail.com with any questions.
Friday, July 7 79 am Round table. Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Friday, July 7

9 – 10:15 am

Opening

Keynote

Daniel Barrerios

Fred Spier

Welcome!

How did humanity get itself into its current ecological predicament?

Friday, July 7

10:30 – 12:15

Complexity in Big History

David LePoire

Complexity Workshop

     

Lowell Gustafson

Emergent Complexity: A Rationale for the University

     

Andrey Kortayev

Patterns of complexity growth in the Big History. A preliminary quantitative analysis

Friday, July 7 12:15 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         

Friday, July 7

12:30 – 1:15 pm

Concepts and Applications

Gustavo Lau

Some Applications of a Big History Concept

         

Friday, July 7

1:15 – 2:45 pm

Complexity Concepts, Education & Applications

Ken Baskin

The Practical Application of Complexity Science to Enhance Big History

     

Mark Ciotola

Resource-Based Predecessor and Parallel Schools of Thought to Big History

     

Paul Narguizian

Big History: Integrating Complexity in Biology Education

         

Friday, July 7

2:45 – 4:15

Complexity and Civilization

Daniel Berreiros

World-Systems, complexity and the suppression of entities: a bioethical and political warning

     

Tony Harper

The Interaction Between Complexity And Entropy Over Human History As Exemplified By Changes In Urbanization

     

Stephen
Satkiewicz

Social Complexity and War from a Big History Perspective

         

Friday, July 7

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Gavitational Waves

Amber Stuver

Probing to the Depths of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

         
Friday, July 7 5:30 7:00 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         

Friday, July 7

7 – 9 pm

Big Socioeconomic History

Daniel Vainfas

Class, Commerce and Climate: an investigation on a set of circumstances for the rise of capitalism in 15th century England

     

Felipe Blois

Civilization and Technology: antientropic concepts, tools and consequences

     

Bernardo Nery

The question of property and trade: cognition, behavior and human evolution

     

Daniel Barreiros

Social Classes and Social Cognition in Capitalism: The enmeshment of Social Institutions and Human Ethology

         

Friday, July 7

9:15 pm

Big History of
Collective Memory and Religion

Kenji Ichikawa

Layered Structure of Little Big History ― Case Study of Enoshima, Japan

         
Friday, July 7 Following Kenjo Ichikawa's presentation and discussion, pllease join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         
Saturday July 8 2:00 am (EDT) Finite Resources, Infinite Greed: Deconstructing the Infrastructural Progress in the Philippines
    Lady Mary Felizziety J. Daguay Godwin C. Pring Juan Gabriel C. Simbulan  
         
Saturday, July 8 6 am Civic Engagement Adalberto Codetta 'Big History' and “Global Civics”
         

Saturday, July 8

7 - 9 am -

Science, Environment and Society – STEAM Education and Big
History in Hong Kong

Aidan Wong

 
     

Alexis Lau

 
     

Rachel Oser

 
         
         

Saturday, July 8

9 – 10:30 am

Mega & Microbial Evolution

Leonid Grinin

Megaevolution: Its Main and Transitional Phases

     

Anton Grinin

Viruses and Evolution

     

Leonid Grinin

Chemical Evolution in Big History

         
Saturday, July 8 10:30 10:45 am Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         

Saturday, July 8

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Where are we going?

Nick Nielsen

Big History for ETI: Recognizing Parochial and Non-Parochial Forms of Complexity

     

Alexander Panov

Big History in the Galaxy: risks of contacts with alien civilizations

     

Marc
Widdowson

The last stop on the cosmic journey: an estimated time of arrival

         
Saturday, July 8 12:15 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Saturday, July 8

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Peter Turchin

Keynote Speaker

Cliodynamics: History as Science

         
Saturday, July 8 1:30 1:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         

Saturday, July 8

1:45 – 3:15 pm

Complexity of
Complexity
Periodization

Max Barnett

6 Steps to the Anthropocene: Mapping Complexity from Foragers to the Anthropocene

     

Nick Hoggard

Complexity in the Thirteen Threshold Theory of Evolution

     

David LePoire

Complexity and Entropy in Cosmic Development including the Cosmic Web and Initial Conditions

         
 

3:30 – 5:00 pm

The Biohistory of Feminism

Abel A. Alves

 
     

Carol Blakney

 
         

Saturday, July 8

7 – 9 pm

War, Politics, and Big History: between
structure and contingency

Beatriz Pimentel,

Daniel Vainfas

Chimpanzee behaviour and Clausewitzian war: differences and similarities in the realms of politics and conflict

     

Walter Silva

The Evolutionary Roots of Warfare and Its Ecological Conditions

     

Daniel Barreiros

International Order and Cognitive Evolution: a Big History approach to the Concert of Europe (1815-1848)

         
Saturday, July 8 9 pm - 11 pm New Visions Nobuo Tsujimura The “Big Twist”: For making big history multicultural and multinatural
      S Darshan The Awakening of Common Consciousness: AGI and the Transition to a Resource-Based Economy
      Spencer Striker Empires & Interconnections for iPad | Challenging Students with Wicked Problems in History
         
Saturday, July 8 11 pm Reflections on Colonization and Globalization as Neutralizing Factors of Filipino Culture
    Lorenzo Miguel N. Guarin John Matthew C. Sausora  
         

Sunday July 9

9 – 10:30 am

Digital and AI
Perspectives

Sergy
Grinchenko

Big History in the Digital Perspective

     

Ekaterina Sashienko

Evolutionary prospects for the development of AI

     

Andrey M.
Burovsky

The most general patterns of Big History

         
Saturday, July 8 1:30 1:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         
Sunday, July 9 9:15 – 10:45 am The Manifestation of Greed in Consumer Electronics: A Filipino Big Historian's Analysis of Resource Scarcity
    Rhod Railey T. De Vera Kirsten Dwayne A. Dizon Fritzgerald Gonzales
         

Sunday July 9

10:45 am – 12:45 pm

Stories,  Language, and Ultimate Reality

Jenna Thompson Enlarging Our Map of Reality: Exploring the Threshold Between Thoughts and Words
     

John Hasse

The Nexus of Storytelling and Collective Learning: A symbiotic spark for human emergence

     

Todd Duncan

Fundamental Physics and Big History: Exploring Perspectives on Ultimate Reality

         
Sunday, July 9 12:45 1:00 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Sunday July 9

1:00  - 1:30 pm

Human Rights

Rob Grace

Human Rights: A Big History Perspective

         
 

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Cosmic
Combinations

Barry Borgerson

Conquering Automatic Human Activities to Construct Threshold 9

      Tyler Volk Combination and Complexity
      Ken Solis Cosmic Evolution – A Critical Appraisal of Energy Rate Density
     

 

 

 

3:00 - 4:00

Members’ Meeting

IBHA Members

 
         

Sunday July 9

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Emerging Big History

Gustavo Lau

An Abstract Data Type inspired by Big History

      David LePoire  
      Anonymous Contributions of AI to Big History
         
 

5:30 - 7 pm

Conclusion

Andrey Korotayev, David LePoire, Daniel Barreiros

       
 

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Big History Authors' Roundtable

David Christian, Ursula Goodenough, Barry Wood, David LePoire, Lowell Gustafson

Sunday, July 8 Following the authors' rountable, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.